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Then, very cautiously, she broke the seals and opened with a beating heart the lid of the box. Inside was a little morocco casket. With a tremulous hand she opened it, and found inside it a pair of earrings and a brooch. Both earrings and brooch were of oxydized silver, dark blue in colour passing insensibly into black.
Stepmother though she be, she is accommodating, subject to the occasional destruction of a hundred thousand lives in a single inundation. The air inside the dune is altogether different from that outside it. The air of the sea is life-giving, bracing, oxydized; the air inland is soft, relaxing, and warm.
He did not finish, and stooping, he picked up a little copper box, all oxydized, which lay in a corner of the hut. That box was opened, and a morsel of paper fell from it, on which Dick Sand read these few words: "Assassinated robbed by my guide, Negoro 3d December, 1871 here 120 miles from the coast Dingo! with me! The note told everything.
"Ring money," he said presently, "might be Anglo-Saxon, might be anything; date absolutely uncertain, but from its appearance I should say slightly alloyed with silver; yes, there is a bit which has oxydized undoubtedly old, that." Then he produced the signet from his pocket, and examined the ring and the stone very carefully through a powerful glass.
The mass of molten lead and silver is drawn off, and placed in a large oven with a rotary bottom, into which tongues of flame are continually driven until the lead in the compound has become once more oxydized, forming litharge, and the silver is left in a pure state. This is the most simple method of purifying, or "benefiting" silver.
The new buffet had not been in the dining-room six months before it looked as ancient as the Louis XIV. pier-glass in the upper hall. This subtle influence of Mr. Maddledock had wrought a curious effect upon the whole house. It oxydized the frescoes on the walls. It subdued the varied shades of color that streamed in from the stained-glass windows.
He spoke with some of the crew of the canoe which had last made the voyage to Manicolo. They told him that there was abundance of iron materials still remaining on the island. Those which Martin Buchart saw were much oxydized and worn.
It had been washed but there were still oxydized spots which might have been made by blood. It was a soft-nosed bullet, probably of thirty caliber, which had mushroomed after striking something. His mouth was grim as he saw the jagged edges of metal. It had made a terrible wound in whatever flesh had stopped it. He laid the two objects down and took the paper that mademoiselle handed to him.
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